Don, will it copy in the order the files are numbered? When I copy mp3 files to my mp3 player, I have to use rsync -a because simply dragging and dropping or using cp from the command line results in the files being transferred (copied) in some semi-random order. That causes a problem because every mp3 player I've tried so far ignores the file names and instead plays the files in the order they were loaded into the mp3 player. Somehow rsync -a forces the files to be loaded in numerical order, which is the way I want them to play.

The GUI appears after doing a right-click onto a file and choosing copy to.... If I'm clicking then the "add a folder to list" button and am closing the file selector gui by its top right close button, the copy process begins to start without any warning, when the file is not already available.

I did this accidentally after right clicking a directory (for testings) containing around 8 GB of files. Since the destination directory was /root/Downloads and the process could not be stopped I've had to watch the directory /root/Downloads and pressing ctrl-a from time to time to remove these files to avoid system crash while writing into empty RAM (have only 1.5 GB) - for some minutes!

Somehow rsync -a forces the files to be loaded
in numerical order, which is the way I want them to play.

Have you tried the -p option when using cp command.
If that doesn't work then I'll put a toggle switch to allow
rsync -a to be used instead of cp

Quote:

p (preserve) – the p flag preserves the following characteristics of
each source path in the corresponding target: The time of the last data
modification and the time of the last access, the ownership (only if it has
permissions to do this), and the file permission bits.

I shall test on the others later and update this, but this is what i was getting on all three.

I have attached a image with a fake .gz for your perusal.

regards
scsijon

UPDATED: Interesting, for my wary/racy pre 5.5 (5.4.90/3) and 5.5 without the service pack have problems, add the service pack, it's gone. I shall have to update my others as I do like your little package. Sorry for the trouble.

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